Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
pain doe pleasure
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
avert
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
mind care bats
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
heed
Take heed lest you stumble.
morrow
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
wrinkles age encroachment
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
kings play people
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
vases pot
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
running may needs
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
purses
Never without a shilling in my purse.
mountain lightning strikes
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
mind care morrow
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
grammar cases disputes
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
wine worry smooth
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.